Team # 24 - ARConnect

Social media where you can upload images or videos to your followers. To view posts from your following, it is available in AR.

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Inspiration

  • Inspired by issues pertaining to present day social media that focus on more on likes and views as supposed to photo-sharing
    • We wanted to connect people on the internet and within communities in a positive, immersive experience
  • Bring society closer together rather than push each other away

What it does

  • Social network for people to share images and videos to be viewed in AR
  • removed parameters such as likes, views, engagement to focus primarily on media-sharing

How we built it

  • Used Google Cloud Platform as our VM host for our backend
  • Utilized web development tools for our website
  • Git to collaborate with teammates
  • Unity and Vuforia to develop Ar

Challenges we ran into

  • Learning new software tools, but we all preserved and had each other's back.
  • Using Unity and learning how to use Vuforia in real time

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Learning Git, and a bunch more new software that we have never touched!
  • Improving our problem solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Learning to communicate with teammates
  • Basics of Ar

What we learned

  • Web development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Bootstrap

What's next for ARConnect

  • Finish developing:
  • RESTful API

  • DBM

  • Improve UX by:

  • Mobile app

  • Adding depth to user added images (3d) in AR

  • User accessibility

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